The Future Is Faster Than You Think (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 107 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.
In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.
Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, Diamandis and Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?
Diamandis, a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer, and Kotler, bestselling author and peak performance expert, probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives—transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance—taking humanity into uncharted territories and reimagining the world as we know it.
As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.
Customer Reviews
A MUST READ!
The Future is Faster Than You Think is a must read for entrepreneurs, business leaders, public officials — and those fascinated by technology and the amazing future that today’s converging exponential technologies are creating right before our eyes. Peter Diamandis is a bold futurist with an optimistic view of the world. This book is a roadmap to what lies ahead in a fascinating and intriguing narrative woven by a man who has positioned himself smack dab in the middle of the innovators and fountainheads leading the way.
Great Insights
Couldn’t stop listening. Incredibly interesting insights. We’ll researched. Tailed off a little at the end though.
Utopian Dreams
This is a must read, but as part of a more holistic book list aimed at comprehending global human society, our place in it now, and where we may be heading.
That said, the book is a review of utopian technophiles’ narrow but lofty dreams for the near future. As evidence of the certainty of this future they point to past convergences that enabled technologies such as voice assistants. Hey Siri, play me that deep cut of Willie Nelson covering Eddie Veddar … yeah right, it’s 2022 and the best Siri can do is set an egg timer without fumbling. Promises. Promises. There won’t be flying Uber taxis making car ownership irrational in 2025, 2035, or even 2045. As I was listening to this book google maps was sending me down unpaved and unmarked ATV trails in the dark of night to a campground that should have been 2 minutes off a major paved highway and we’re supposed to expect cars will be able to drive themselves? Let’s see if we can make the last decade’s technology work the way it was promised before we harken the next paradigm shift.
The reason I subtracted 1-star isn’t due to the blind optimism I just ridiculed, but due to the writing voice which sounded like a sales pitch. In a way this was an unserious approach to a topic deserving of more formidable inquiry.
Yet, for its faults, it is a quick read that does a fair job explaining a simple point, that the convergence of technologies accelerates product innovation. If that is the only lesson, it is a worthy lesson.